Quotes by Nicholas G. Carr

Nicholas G. Carr

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

Doe

Energy

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

Book

Technological Change

Wise

All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

Order

Reading

Years

As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it’s not a flow; it’s a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

Different

Flow

Views

By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.

Economic Value

Hands

Mean

Culture is sustained in our synapses…It’s more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Generations

Memories

Mind

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

Intellectual

Technology

Thinking

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

Book

Interesting

Thinking

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

Mind

Stories

Thinking

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

Book

Thinking

Way

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Art

Beach

Book

Brain

Broken

Castles

Cells

Clock

Coffee

Depth

Different

Discovery

Doe

Economic Value

Educational

Energy

Exercise

Fall

Flow

Generations

Guy

Hands

Intellectual

Interesting

Islands

Long

Loss

Mean

Memories

Might

Mind

Once Upon A Time

Order

Printing

Reading

Risk

Running

Scuba Divers

Sea

Shields

Space

Spring

Stories

Talking

Technological Change

Technology

Thinking

Ties

Together

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Quotes by Nicholas G. Carr

Nicholas G. Carr

A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to read out loud in order to figure out you know, where was a word ending and where is the word beginning.

As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it’s not a flow; it’s a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.

Culture is sustained in our synapses…It’s more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

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